Participation Agreement Deadline is Approaching Fast!

Please Sign Your Jericho Participation Agreement Now & Return ASAP

You must sign your Jericho REACH Participant Agreement (PA) to be part of Jericho REACH on January 1, 2023.

Please click HERE to download the PA. Current participants need only sign, scan and return the signature page (p.22) to jericho@jerichoreach.com. New physicians/practices will also need to fill out Exhibit A (p.23) and send both pages to the same email address.

Jericho Update: Take Action Before The CMS Deadline

What’s in This Update?

  • Make your BE/BEI Elections Now

  • Remember to Sign Your Participant Agreement

  • Let Us Know if You’re Interested in Participating on the Board or a Committee

  • Join Your Colleagues in Spreading the Word About Jericho by Hosting a Dinner

Make Your BE/BEI Elections Now

CMS’ Benefit Enhancement (BE) and Benefit Engagement Incentive (BEI) programs are designed to improve the beneficiary experience and the health outcomes of your patients and to give REACH ACO’s more flexibility in providing care cost-effectively.

November 18, 2022 is the initial CMS deadline for Participant Physicians to indicate their interest in taking part in the BE and BEI programs that are offered by their REACH ACO. Although that deadline is fast-approaching, due to delays at CMS, Jericho has not yet received confirmation from CMS about which programs it is approved to offer.

In order for you not miss the potential to participate in any program, we’ve enrolled all Jericho Participant Providers in all of the programs for now.

What are the implications and next steps of that?

Jericho strongly recommends that you participate in all of the programs.

As a program enrollee, you have the opportunity to participate in it. But, you are not obligated to participate in it. If you would like your enrollment removed from the potential to participate in a program, you may let us know by December 9, 2022 and we will update your status.

To see a summary of the BE/BEI programs click here.

After you have reviewed the programs, click here if you would like to get a form to indicate to Jericho on a program-by-program basis which ones you would like to participate in and which ones you choose not to participate in.

If you have any questions about these programs, please feel free to reach out to call Geoff Teed at (203) 520-9471 or to send an email to the Jericho team at jericho@jerichoreach.com.

Remember to Sign Your Participant Agreement

You must sign your Jericho REACH Participant Agreement (PA) to be part of Jericho REACH on January 1, 2022. If you haven’t already signed your PA, click here to download, sign and return to jericho@jerichoreach.com.

Let Us Know if You Are Interested in Participating on the Board or a Committee

Jericho REACH is governed and operated by the physicians who participate in it. If you are interested in being a Jericho Board member (there will be a decision process in early 2023) or serving on a Committee (Clinical Transformation/Evidence-Based Medicine; Compliance; Operations, Infrastructure, and Administration; or Compensation/Shared Savings Distribution), please let us know by sending an email to jericho@jerichoreach.com and telling us a bit about your interest and qualifications.

Join Your Colleagues in Spreading the Word About Jericho by Hosting a Dinner

On the ‘Welcome to Jericho’ Zoom call we talked about how important it is to spread the word about Jericho and increase the number of participants. We’re excited that many of you have responded by reaching out your colleagues and friends to share the Jericho story. To better support that outreach, we’re now sponsoring a series of group dinners where you, like-minded local physicians, and members of Jericho’s organizing team get together over a meal. In addition to paying for the dinner, Jericho supports dinner organizers via a template email invitation and making informational content available. If you are interested in organizing a dinner in your community, please let us know at jericho@jerichoreach.com or call Geoff Teed at (203) 520-9471.

If you haven’t seen the Welcome to Jericho Zoom call, you can view it in the Members Area of the Jericho website. The password is ‘breakdownwalls.’

As always, if you have any questions, comments, suggestions or ideas, please reach out to me and the Jericho team at jericho@jerichoreach.com

Spread The Word About Jericho REACH To Other Physicians

Increasing the number of physicians who participate in Jericho is a win-win. It helps current Jericho participants by helping us to negotiate better rates, provide more services, and spread administrative costs and actuarial risk across a broader base.

New participants will be able to enjoy all the benefits that led you to join Jericho, including the potential for meaningfully increased annual income based on care delivery savings for their aligned beneficiaries, with the exception that they won’t be eligible for prospective monthly payments in 2023. Although we can’t add to the list of physicians who have signed up to participate starting January 1, 2023, we can add voluntarily aligned beneficiaries for any current or new physician each calendar quarter.

Please mention Jericho to all like-minded physicians who may be interested in participating. Based on our experience, we think that conversations are the best way to let others know about Jericho. But, if you’d like an email template to modify and send, just let us know.

Welcome to Jericho REACH

A ‘Welcome to Jericho REACH’ Zoom call was held last week on October 12th with preliminary information for participants and a great Q&A session.

The agenda included:

• Introductions

• Jericho REACH Overview

• Questions & Answers

• Introduction to Kumi, Jericho’s ‘Back Office’

• Why it’s Important to Tell Others About Jericho

• Open Mic Conversation

If you were not able to attend this informative meeting, you can watch the full recording HERE…